The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-07-15

dining-room-excuSe me, car l mean-as
man ever sat down in. The table linen
was spotless, and the service u~nexception-
able. There were flowers in a little vase
/ in front of a mirror over the table be-
tween The windows, and whenever raised
my eyes they fell upon a most ornate
bou6fs. that fairly shone with silver, glass
and polished brass. This dining ear was
fitted up in old oak, with blue-green
~vclours hangings and upholstery general
". The dinner cost me 4 dollar, and was
better than the best dollar-and-a-half din
ner l ever ate in a hotel. l had a pint Of
Pommery too, for which l paid the usual
two dollars. ! smoked 4 cigar after din
mer in the smoking car, which, with its
stained oak book cases and brackets, its
bric- a-brac on the shelves, and its softly
/ cushioned wicker chairs. was more like a
comfortable library in some city house,
than the interior of It ear running across
the country at a speed that a few years ago
no railroad dared even to attempt. | had
some letters to answer, and so | sat down
there at a desk and answered them. If
was at loss for the spelling of a word, a
| dictionary was at hand, and il | wanted an
| address, all | had to do was ask the porter
for a directory of the city in which the lost
party resided. Before I had finished writ
ing, it was after nine o'clock, and We had
passed Fort Wayne. and were laundering
on towards Crcstlinc, our next stopping
place.
"As I was tired | turned in early. and |
slept as s5undly as though I were in my
own home. l slept far into the morning,
and when l awokc and went into break
fast. we were somewhere between Pitts
burg and Altoona. After breakfast went
into the barber shop and"
Tho barber shop" interrupted his eoin-
panion, where did you find a barber
shop?'
son the train of course. o., didn't
speak of it before, did /? Well, that's
another feature exclusively the property
of the Pennsylvania's New York and
Chicago Limited. Yes, sir. There is a bar
Der shop there, and a good barber too.
was shaved without a scratch, had my
hair trimmed. and felt as fresh as n field
daisy in June. l found a book in the
library that interested me until lunch
time and Just IS / got through lunch
con we arrived at Harrisburg, promptly
on schedule time-1.55. There | got the
New York papers, looked over the grain
markets, wired an order to my partner to
buy 5000 bushels Of July wheat for my
account, and settled down with a cigar be-
tween my teeth for Al hour or two with
the news Of the day. About four O'Clock
| took my satchel. made my way to the
bath-room-0. yes; there's n bath room
too-had a delightfully."- refreshing bath,
put on clean clothes, and d0nned this black
and white attire which you now see. Be
fore | had finished, We had stopped at
Broad Street Station, in Philadelphia, for
five minutes, and were shooting out over
the Scluylkill on the last stage Of the
journey. Another delicious dinner occupi-
ed another hour and more. When | went
into the smoking ear, we were somewhere
between Trenton and New Brunswick, and
though there was no perceptible sway
ing of the train or iolting either, | was
told shortly afterwards that we had made
the run of twenty-five miles between those
two points III exactly twenty-seyen min
utes. Pretty fast going that, ell? Before l
had finished my second cigar we were in
Jersey City. l took the upper ferry, ar
rived ON the New York side at sharp
seven O'Clock, jumped into 4 cab and
walked into the church tonight in time to
get a good seat forward, from which I wit
messed my friends marriage from start to
finish.
"My verdict consequently is, that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company's new
Nestibuled Train beats the world. There's
not another road on the face of this globe
that could have afforded such q service as
that, and l am willing to make any bet on
il that you choose to PROPOSE"
Then the Hon. Wolfe Rahill made the ar
nouncement that lie intended to take the
Limited back to Chicago at nine o'clock
this morning, and bade his friend good
night.-NeD York Times.